when the levy breaks: summer transfer window 2019

all that clip is missing is a rolex and a skip, embarrassing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48782683

I've just checked and they currently have 32 players out on loan, which is likely to mitigate the transfer ban a bit. Abraham, Mount, etc, are likely to come back, i guess.

It's friggin' Charlie Adam, what do you expect him to say?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48780865

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/lee-bowyer-renews-attack-rangers-17264372

lee bowyer took the absolute piss out of rangers and Scottish football by saying their latest signing mr gummy sweets would have made a wiser career move going to brentford, then he completely owned himself by complementing the grunting semi-sentient troglodyte gerrard.

It sounds like the Ndombele deal is a long way from being done.

the fuck time of the morning is this to wake me for that

He was at Spurs' training ground yesterday so I'm quietly confident.

But, you know, Spurs

At the Spurs' training ground looking at houses.

willian scars run deep yet

Milan banned from the Europa League for FFP violations. Do Man City next.

lol

BREAKING: Arsenal have today bid £40million for Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, Sky Sports News understands

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) July 1, 2019

lol

should cost more for a whole mid to lower table prem team :p

the fuckin state of that bid

i no longer know how much footballers should cost but palace have fuckin gotten into the premiership at the right fuckin time

United have apparently bid £34m for Bruno Fernandes, which is likely to be as successful as the Zaha offer.

Barcelona have supposedly put up £100m for Lautaro Martinez, scorer of six Serie A goals last season (who does look an excellent prospect tbf).

there's a story floating around that Fernandes had a clause inserted in his contract that if Sporting turn down any offer above €35m, they have to pay him €5m

no idea of its veracity, but it seems weirdly specific

I saw that and couldnt tell if it was yknow every time or what

I preferred the ceefax/teletext days of reading about summer transfer rumours, the mountain of worthless shit on newsnow is just too much to filter.

i solve it by not believing a fucking word until i see somebody turn up for a team's first fixture

I solve it by reading about summer transfer rumours on teletext.

the last time we signed someone there wasnt any other option tbf

AS understand Tottenham Hotspur have agreed a loan deal to sign Real Madrid midfielder Dani Ceballos with the two clubs 'optimistic' on completing the move. #THFC pic.twitter.com/oPkCklpBSq

— Talking THFC (@TalkingTHFC) July 2, 2019

Oh and Utd have bid £70m for Harry Maguire

oof

wouldnt get in Ireland team

ceballos hardly come to us in good attitude imo

loan tho. hmmph.

ndombellllllleeeeeeee

goodbye Helder Costa, i for one will miss you ;_;

Leeds 😅

he deserved better but i'm sure he'll enjoy working for Bielsa

spanish media (fwtw) claim mpappe transfer request

mpappe roach

Man city sign Rodri for 62m making him the second most expensive Welshman ever

false giggs economy

26.5m for tyrone mings

No seriously

some pissed up druggy from the local park who can still pass a beep test and kick a ball is worth at least 50 grand these days.

Maybe Villa thought they were buying an ancient dynastic vase and were sent a footballer instead.

lool!

he's the quality of player mick mccarthy would have got for a few hundred grand and a bag of cones and balls 10 years back!

and then never play him cos he didn't run enough laps of the pitch one day in training

"Played 23 times in 4 years"

If Villa were actually interested in Kongolo as reported, then seriously he is literately a £50 million player at least at this valuation of talent.

26.5m for tyrone mings

No seriously

LOL, insanity.

it's probably really 18m and loads of silly extras of which most won't ever be paid, but still absolute insanity.

https://pics.me.me/the-man-who-does-more-than-he-is-paid-for-2354123.png

A meme from the instagram account of one of our players who has made 7 appearances in 2 and a half years and done next to fuck all!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/ca/08/bcca0825ecb4652f0e468d413ab42ef0.jpg

at least he followed it up with something also suitably sibylline and enigmatic tbf!

at the risk of exposing myself to the ridicule of the masses...

Tyrone Mings was fucking fantastic for us in the second half of last season and was a massive factor in that ridiculous winning streak that took us from mid-table into the playoffs. he is a total fan fave already and i'm glad we've got him on a permanent deal. i mean probably we are massively overpaying but when Man Utd are talking about spending 70m on Harry Maguire or whatever the figure is being quoted atm i don't really care, what even is money

Do you rate Tuanzebe, Windsor?

Tyrone is a Big Character. He is steadfastly, unwaveringly Up For It. He Loves It.

He'll probably also be picking up some straight reds for abysmal last ditch interventions during 6-0 defeats to ooh, most of the top 8

I think Villa will go back down, because they have to pretty much buy a new team, and they seem to be taking lots of punts on unproven players to facilitate it. Maybe they'll sign loads of players with Premier League experience later in the window idk, but dropping 20mil on Tyrone doesn't suggest they're on some ultra-patient 5d chess bargain hunting

The Guardian piece on Maguire today seemed pretty OTM, you can imagine a Guardiola or a Klopp or a Poch turning him into a real £70m player but the idea of Solskjaer doing that?

bbc guy says that eriksen is on his way to carrington

do they even have a football team?

levy'd

eriksen surely leaves, whether utd today or a european outfit later matters not

but lo celso/ndombele in, eriksen/wanyama out is neither a disaster nor a huge leap forward, regardless that it'll be painted as both

Lo Celso and Ndombele are several years younger than either and Ndombele is almost certainly a major upgrade on any of our central midfielders. Sessegnon looks like it's happening as well although he's obviously a work in progress I'm confident in Poch to work his magic on him.

Twitter seems to think Sessegnon has hit problems.

Think I'm just going to turn the internet off until about half past five tonight.

Why would anyone want to go to Arsenal, igi, but really why would Luiz want to?

can we start arguing about this season's thread title now so it's ready for tomorrow? would propose "Your old car is completely reliable, but you want a new one and two weeks later it breaks down" but it's a bit much

Throwing "Steve Bruce is the rock on which Newcastle's free flowing football finally flounders" up for consideration, stumbled on it somewhere

just been reminded that Leon Clarke is technically a Premier League footballer at the moment

You must be Joachim: Liverpool will not compete for the Gibraltar Premier Division 2020

gah i've not been able to get this out of my head since hearing robyn in the co-op this morning, someone's going to have to fill in the blanks for me though:

paulo dybala / he's not the guy you're taking home / we'll just get _____ ____ on loan

thank god andy carroll doesn't scan

Looks like Sessegnon and Lo Celso are done.

I honestly couldn't tell you how good lo Celso is and i've probably seen him 15 times. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does, though.

Mooy and Maupay to Brighton is good business imo.

Sarr to Watford too.

Everton have agreed a deal to sign Arsenal and Nigeria winger Alex Iwobi for a fee in the region of £35-40m #EFC #AFC

— David Ornstein (@bbcsport_david) August 8, 2019

kieran tierney to arsenal confirmed :'-(

see ye in jan

lo Celso is a loan?

Loan w/ option to buy him for 55m next year

Which is a pretty sweet deal imo

different info on whether its an obligation or an option

Mooy isn't one of the wasters that downed tools last season but he's been a shadow of the player he was for a while. This funny business of getting him to sign a contract extension then loaning him to Brighton might backfire on us - if he has another dud season it might be hard to move him on when the club is thinking how much they could have got for him in this window. He must have agitated for the move because we just received £15m for Billing and are not under pressure to sell and the players all take 40% wage cuts with the relegation - or something like that is written into all their contracts. Proper tight northern bstads!

I think it's an obligation to buy Lo Celso unless we fail to qualify for Europe. In which case it becomes an option, and he won't want to take it.

wasnt benik afobe....good...recently enough?

Went to shit at Bournemouth when he realised he wasn't good enough for the Prem iirc

can we start arguing about this season's thread title now so it's ready for tomorrow? would propose "Your old car is completely reliable, but you want a new one and two weeks later it breaks down" but it's a bit much

― seven against feebs (Noodle Vague), Thursday, August 8, 2019 3:39 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

fire it up, slackers liverpool is already up 3-0 and it's only been 30min

Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20